Quick Action Urged on Three Fiscal Bills to Avert Debt Crisis
Roosevelt aides warned Congress must pass three key measures on revenues debt structure and monetary policy within 40 days to avoid July 1 financial disruption. Lapses in nuisance taxes and a 3 cent postal rate threaten $750 million and $150 million revenue respectively.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
Morgenthau
U. S
France
Doughton
North Carolina
House
Ways and Means Committee
Gene Man
Senate
Barkley
Taxi Lines to Test Uniform Charleston Fares
Eight Charleston taxi firms agreed to a six week trial of uniform rates set by the public service commission acting as an unofficial arbitration panel. Fares range from 20 to 90 cents with eight zones and standard charges from downtown to Capitol and Kanawha City. The plan begins at 6 am Wednesday and runs through July 1 to gather data for a permanent order.
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Charleston
Public Service Commission
John J. D. Preston
Commission
Preston
Capitol
Kanawha City
C. and O
Love of Fishing Held No Cause For Divorce
MILWAUKEE May 20 Circuit Judge William F Shaughnessy denied divorces to two fishing widows who cited their husbands frequent fishing trips as a reason. The judge said fishing is a wholesome recreation husbands are entitled to enjoy and a wife who objects is unreasonable.
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Milwaukee
William F. Shaughnessy
Borah Opposes Practical War Referendum Plan
Sen Borah Idaho asserts proponents fail to show a workable method to define foreign wars under a proposed constitutional amendment. He favors letting the people decide on non defensive wars but warns of delay if the vote is required in urgent contingencies.
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Washington
Sen
Borah
Idaho
Senate Judiciary
Congress
U. S
Blair graduates pick concise program omitting orations
Blair Nebraska on May 20 saw 89 high school seniors choose a brief graduation program. They declined the traditional orations and arranged a short, snappy sequence for the exercises.
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Blair
Neb
UMW Leader Cancels Mass Meeting in Harlan
United Mine Workers in Harlan County cancel a Sunday mass meeting following a military order. William Turnblazer announces signing of the first commercial mine contract with Black Star Coal at Alva and notes 800 workers employed there. Forty-six men held on $1,000 bond after a gunfight involving national guardsmen. they face preliminary hearing. John Padgett released on $1,000 bond for malicious shooting after a miner was wounded.
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Harlan
United Mine Workers
William Turnblazer
Harlan District U. M. W
Harlan County
Turnblazer
Black Star Coal Company
Alva
Harlan County Coal Operators’ Association
National
C. E. Ball
J. C. Fleming
John Padgett
Yankee Clipper Opens First Regular Trans Atlantic Air Mail
The Yankee Clipper carrying 4000 pounds of postal matter began the first regular trans Atlantic air mail flight. The 42 ton Pan American craft with a 14 crew and three airline officials left Long Island Bay, reaching 1900 miles in 10 hours 23 minutes and still 500 miles from Horta.
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Port Washington
N. Y
INS
Pan-American
New York
Horta
Long Island Bay
Yankee Clipper Flight Manoeuvres Across Atlantic
From Manhasset bay the Yankee Clipper departed at 1 07 p m EDT and by 15 hours flight was expected to end at Horta Azores. After arrival a one hour hop to Lisbon and continued legs were planned to Marseilles and Southampton with Tuesday morning arrival. The take off marked the 12th anniversary of the service.
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Manhasset Bay
Long Island
Horta
Azores
Lisbon
Marseilles
France
Southampton
England
Air Express
Slap at Critics By FDR Seen
Washington, May 20. President Roosevelt sails to Annapolis aboard the Potomac for a weekend Chesapeake Bay cruise with guests including Frank Murphy James Byrnes and Ross McIntyre. He plans a speech to the American Retail Federation signaling liberal policy and a possible third term platform. The White House says the talk will be broadcast nationally.
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Washington
INS
American Business Tonight
Roosevelt
American Retail Federation
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
White House
Potomac
Annapolis
Chesapeake Bay
Frank Murphy
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Ross T. McIntyre
McIntyre
Work Together Farley Calls For United 1940 Effort
James A. Farley, Democratic national chairman, urged in San Francisco that the 1940 election can be won if Democrats unite under Roosevelt policies. He contrasted the Republicans lacking a leader with no clear program and praised Roosevelt’s record in public welfare.
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San Francisco
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Farley
Hoover Declines to Seek 1940 Nomination
Former president Herbert Hoover told 100 Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan Republican editors in LaGrange that he is not a candidate for the 1940 nomination and declined to name possible favorites. He warned against warlike propaganda and cited four causes of weak business confidence including high taxes labor strife uncertain currency and election worries. Hoover spoke for ninety minutes and answered questions.
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Chicago
INS
Herbert Hoover
LaGrange
Hoover
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
U. S
W. W. Loomis
The
LaGrange Citizen
California
Coal Production Near Normalcy In West Virginia
Coal again runs through most tipples as West Virginia moves toward normalcy after a seven week shutdown. The Appalachian wage pact ended June 13 and left a mixed reopening, with Carter Coal expected to restart Monday if workers report. Three major operations still unreopened while captive steel mines faced ongoing contract talks.
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West Virginia
United Mine Workers
Captive Mines Still Out in Alabama
Birmingham May 20 Only agreement on a work contract for 4,000 captive mine workers was needed today to return Alabama s 20 000 coal miners to the pits after a seven week absence An early settlement was predicted Other union members will begin work Monday under contracts signed for 5 000 workers in captive mines operated by the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad company and for approximately 12 000 men employed in the district s commercial mines
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Tennessee Coal, Iron& Railroad Company
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Celebrate Birthday in Ottawa
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth conclude four days of Canadian receptions in Ottawa with the queen delivering her first public address and laying the cornerstone of the new Canadian supreme court building. The royal couple attend a government dinner, fireworks, and a garden party for 5,000 at Government House, while crowds cheer from balconies.
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Ottawa
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Canada
North American
King
George VI
George
Elizabeth
W. L. Mackenzie King
Hull
Quebec
Government House
Chateau Laurier
Counter-Revolt Plot Leader Alleged By Un-American Inquiry
The Dies committee released "proof" of alleged plots by leftist and rightist coalitions to overthrow the U S government. Letters link George Deatherage and Dudley Gilbert to a rightist general said to plan a campaign hub in Atlanta. A waiter’s report mentions a leftist scheme to trigger a financial panic or provoke a foreign war.
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Washington
INS
U. S
House
Dies Committee
Revolution Plans
George Deatherage
St. Albans
W. Va
Knights of the White Camellia
Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert
New York City
American Nationalists, Inc
Gilbert
Harmonie Club
Atlanta
George van Horn Mosely
U. S. Army
5Th Corps
Frank
Idle Fund Use To Be Sought
The anti monopoly committee convenes national insurance and banking leaders to map idle fund uses. It moves to phase two of its Depression study, probing stagnation in savings and institutional pools to free capital for new enterprise. Leaders Sloan Young Stettinius assert future growth will rely on earnings, not outsiders’ capital.
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Washington
INS
National Insurance and Banking
Roosevelt
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
Owen D. Young
General Electric Corporation
Edward Stettinius
U. S. Steel Corporation
500 Bombers Ordered To Challenge Germany
The War Department ordered 500 bombing planes to boost U S air power and supremacy, a record single-type order. Planes would reach 400 mph and long range, aimed at restoring U S aviation dominance lost to Germany. The move followed warnings from Col Charles A Lindbergh and was tied to congressional testimony on German air strength.
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Washington
INS
War Department
Germany
U. S
Reich
Charles A. Lindbergh
America
Mussolini vows to impose peace with new axis pact
In Cuneo Benito Mussolini warned France and Britain that an Italo German alliance to be signed in Berlin will impose peace on Europe if democracies block Nazi fascist aims. He spoke to 30,000 supporters and pledged unity with Germany against Poland and France.
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Cuneo
Italy
INS
Benito Mussolini
France
Great Britain
Berlin
Europe
Nice
Germany
Duce
Piedmont
Turin
Mussolini
Poland
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Alberto Pariani
Musgolini
Adolf Hitler
Danzig
Reich
Pomorze
Cing—Chage Cellor
Thefuehrer
Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
General von Wedel
Britain
Limes
von Wedel
Jin
Bors der
East Pudah
27 Now Held In Poison Plots
Philadelphia police report 27 in custody and nine known victims in a widening eastern insurance murder case. Nine exhumations show bodies with non natural deaths including murder by drowning and poisoning. 14 indicted for murder or conspiracy and 13 held for further questioning.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Delaware
New
Socrates
Britain Likely to Accept Mutual Aid Pact With Soviet Russia
London reports point to a British cabinet decision next week to approve a mutual aid pact with the Soviet Union. Viscount Halifax seeks Paris talks as Poland and Romania are asked anew about allowing troop passage should the pact go forward. Chamberlain poised to push formal approval amid shifting positions in Eastern Europe.
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London
Paris
Russia
Viscount Halifax
Poland
Rumania
Soviet Union
Chamberlain
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Semet-Solvay Company
McDowell County
U. S. Steel
New Yorker
Moseley
Lindbergh
House Army Appropriations Subcommittee
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